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Monday, October 31, 2011

Matrix Service Sets Date to Discuss Results for the First Quarter Ended September 30, 2011

[PR Newswire] - Matrix Service Company will announce results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2011 on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 after the close of the market.

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By the Numbers: PulteGroup

PulteGroup reports a third quarter loss thanks to a loss in company goodwill.

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Mayor can do more to limit tax rate

I write with great concern for all taxpayers. As you are aware, we have faced difficult economic conditions for several years now.

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Border Fence Raises Cost Questions

Questions of practicality and effectiveness are raised as Republican candidates call for a longer or higher border fence.

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US housing starts jumped in September

U.S. housing starts rose 15 percent in September, according to the latest data. Separately, consumer inflation was up slightly last month, a government report showed.

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Robins & Morton: Auburn University Basketball Arena

Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) Solutions help Robins & Morton build a new basketball arena using leaner and greener practices.

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The world's most expensive vacation rentals

What do a private Caribbean island, a 16th-century Tuscan estate and the former abode of Frank Sinatra have in common? They're all available on Jetset Homes, a new luxury vacation rentals booking site.

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Low interest turns savers into spenders

Under normal circumstances, that would be a troubling sign for the economy. But a closer review of government figures released Friday suggests another possibility: People are saving less money because they're earning next to nothing in interest.

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

US homebuilders less pessimistic in October

U.S. homebuilders are less pessimistic about the struggling housing market, but not enough to signal a recovery any time soon.

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Cleveland, Lorain and Sandusky would be linked by bus, rail under transit plan

An ambitious, 16-year plan to resurrect Lorain County's bus system and link Sandusky to Cleveland by commuter rail lacks a key ingredient -- money.

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Home sales down in September

This chart shows the monthly and yearly percent change in national pending home sales since 2005.

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HerreroBoldt: Hospital Construction Partnership

Hospital construction partnership HerreroBoldt uses Autodesk Building Information Modeling solutions for the virtual construction of a new hospital in San Francisco.

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Engagement of teachers in backward areas on ReT pattern: Peerzada

Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed on Sunday said that teacher posts having fallen vacant in educationally backward areas since 2010 will be filled up on Rehbar-e-Taleem pattern.

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Ask the Contractor: Tips for Transforming Your Home

Tips for transforming your home.

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Athi� | Wohnrath: Dow Chemical Building (Brazil)

Autodesk BIM software enables Brazilian architectural design firm Athi� | Wohnrath to enhance design integrity, accelerate projects, and gain competitive advantage.

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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation Schedules Announcement for 2011 Third Quarter Results

[Business Wire] - Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation today announced that it will release its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 7:00 a.m. C.D.T.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Urban-Style Lofts Get a Warm Welcome in Alabama

2-signature-eloft-livingroom(90) A Birmingham, Ala. builder turns an unsellable suburban commercial lot into fast-selling townhomes with an urban warehouse loft feel.

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Great Lakes Dredge And Dock: Wind In The Sails And Limited Downside

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Masdar Headquarters Project

Multidisciplinary project team led by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill designs world's first large-scale positive-energy building with help from Autodesk� BIM solutions.

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Strains Visible in Homes Data

Strains Visible in Homes Data: The number of American households behind on mortgage payments hovered...

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McDermott sees third-quarter EPS of 3c to 5c

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Big drop in home sales in cheaper O.C. towns

DataQuick's Orange County homebuying report for the 22 business days ending October 14 -- the latest numbers --found sales activity tumbling in lower-priced communities.

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Big drop in home sales in cheaper O.C. towns

DataQuick's Orange County homebuying report for the 22 business days ending October 14 -- the latest numbers --found sales activity tumbling in lower-priced communities.

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Listing of the Week: Life inside a guitar

This luxurious Alabama mansion has guitar-shaped grounds. And that's just the beginning.This luxurious Alabama mansion has guitar-shaped grounds. And that's just the beginning.




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Friday, October 28, 2011

Big drop in home sales in cheaper O.C. towns

DataQuick's Orange County homebuying report for the 22 business days ending October 14 -- the latest numbers --found sales activity tumbling in lower-priced communities.

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Signed Contracts Down in September

While the month's Pending Home Sales Index reading remains above last year, that gap has been shrinking.

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Architecturally Impressive Lairs of Movie Villains: Inspired by the one-off pub Evil...

Inspired by the one-off pub Evil People Who Live in Modernist Homes in Popular Films, Curbed National takes a look at some terrific-looking midcentury homes of some of film's most terrific villains.

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A Heavy Bet On Heavy Construction

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Pending home sales drop for a third month

Pending sales of existing U.S. homes dropped for a third successive month during September, a real estate industry group reported on Thursday, though a sales index was above year-ago levels.

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A Lifeline for Underwater Homeowners

A Lifeline for Underwater Homeowners: Help may finally be on the way for borrowers stuck in...

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CSArch lays off 12 as industry slump...

The layoffs at CSArch lowered the firm's total staffing to 63 people, the level at which it stood about five years ago.

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HerreroBoldt: Hospital Construction Partnership

Hospital construction partnership HerreroBoldt uses Autodesk Building Information Modeling solutions for the virtual construction of a new hospital in San Francisco.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

New home sales rise in September, prices fall

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Gun Fired at Construction Equipment

Gun Fired at Construction Equipment - PSP Montoursville continue to investigate an incident of criminal mischief which occurred sometime over a 3-day period last month.

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4 Green Features Customers Want

Selling clients on the environmental benefits-rather than the added value-of green homes is akin to asking them to write a check for charity.

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Stocks get M&A and earnings boost

Caterpillar said the eurozone debt problems and slowing U.S. economic growth are "concerning," but they are not signaling "the onset of recession." Europe's top leaders said Sunday that they were getting closer to finalizing a plan to solve the continent's debt crisis .

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Iconic shop ready to reopen

The Press was given a tour of the preparations underway in the Ballantynes store as it gets ready to reopen for the first time since February's quake.

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IBEW Local 649 building for future

A worker uses a float to smooth the concrete pour of a floor Monday morning at the new IBEW Local 649 union hall under construction on Humbert Road in Godfrey, near Ted's Motorcycle World.

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Poll: Many boomers staying put amid bad economy

As baby boomers look ahead to retirement, they'd prefer a home that is affordable, accessible to medical care and close to family.

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UPDATED 1:15 PM: Substation fire leaves Stone Hill area without...

UPDATED: 1:15 P.M. Power has been restored to Hermann Electric Department customers following a fire in facilities just outside the city's #2 substation.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Incitec Pivot considers new plant

Explosives and fertiliser supplier Incitec Pivot is looking into building an ammonium nitrate manufacturing plant on the site of its fertiliser facility in Newcastle in NSW.

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Construction leaders gathering at CCA Industry Leaders Forum

Industry leaders will be re-thinking the basics of construction at the upcoming Canadian Construction Association's Construction Industry Leaders Forum.

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WGME-TV Settles Labor Dispute

Done deal: The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1837 and WGME-TV in Portland have agreed on a new contract that covers about forty behind-the-scenes employees at the station.

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Taliban gone, but province still fearful

The massive Buddhas that were carved into the sandstone cliffs here 15 centuries ago are gone, and so too are those who dynamited them into oblivion.

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Senate backs plan to help Americans buy homes

A home under construction is for sale in Great Falls, Virginia August 23, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueThe Senate on Thursday backed a measure to help bolster the housing market by making it easier for people to afford a home in wealthier neighborhoods.




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Marcello Martino Design: Product & Interior Design

Marcello Martino Design uses the visual communication software in Autodesk� Design Suite to accelerate the end-to-end design workflow for its cutting-edge eyewear design.

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Marcello Martino Design: Product & Interior Design

Marcello Martino Design uses the visual communication software in Autodesk� Design Suite to accelerate the end-to-end design workflow for its cutting-edge eyewear design.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

IBEW Local 649 building for future

A worker uses a float to smooth the concrete pour of a floor Monday morning at the new IBEW Local 649 union hall under construction on Humbert Road in Godfrey, near Ted's Motorcycle World.

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Wood Partners: Wood Partners to Wrap Construction This Month on $13 Million Affordable Active-Living Community in Charlotte (Market Wire)

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Activity is picking up in Gulf of Mexico, executives say

It's been a year-and-a-half since David Rabalais recruited a new tenant for the Port of Terrebonne, the last one having signed on just before BP's Macondo well erupted in the Gulf of Mexico and triggered a months-long moratorium on deepwater drilling permits.

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Seattle?s Bullitt Center Aims to Be Energy Self-Sufficient

The Bullitt Center, under construction in Seattle, aims to break new ground in energy conservation by providing its own water and electricity.

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Oakville.com Launches Oakville Real Estate Section on Website

The website's newly launched section will feature detailed information regarding houses for sale in Oakville , including times and places for open house viewings in the area.

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Azra Karaduman, turkey earthquake survivor Image 2

A rescuer cradled the naked infant, who was wrapped in a blanket and handed over to a medic.

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Granite is Early Adopter of Global Warming Solutions Act

[Business Wire] - Granite Construction Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Granite Construction Incorporated , announced today that it is a voluntary early adopter of California?s Global Warming Solutions Act , with the installation of a 1-megawatt thin-film solar system at one of its central California construction materials facilities.

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Obama to bypass Congress on housing

Barack Obama wants to pose as a man of action on the economy, the New York Times reports today, and so he will announce a series of executive actions on housing and education.A Obama hopes that these actions will contrast himself with Congress, where even Democrats have balked at passing his American Jobs Act either in whole or piecemeal: With his ... (more)

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Bid to train more female electricians

The Electrical Contractors' Association scheme, Wired for Success, aims to reduce female unemployment and tackle the industry's skills crisis at the same time.

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WSJ: Many 'Focused" Mutual Funds Have Rough 2011 (iStock Analysis)

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Leading Property Manager Answers Obama's Call to Boost Housing Efficiency

web_lend_101911_1(90) Lend Lease will conduct energy assessments of 40,000 homes on military bases.

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NECA kicks off four-day convention Saturday

Starting Saturday morning and continuing through Tuesday, the San Diego Convention Center will play host to the largest annual gathering of electricians connected by the National Electrical Contractors Association, and there's no shortage of special guests, demonstrations and informational sessions to draw in crowds from around the country.

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Senate backs plan to help Americans buy homes

A home under construction is for sale in Great Falls, Virginia August 23, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueThe Senate on Thursday backed a measure to help bolster the housing market by making it easier for people to afford a home in wealthier neighborhoods.




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Robins & Morton: Auburn University Basketball Arena

Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) Solutions help Robins & Morton build a new basketball arena using leaner and greener practices.

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Province calls for overhaul of NB Power

The New Brunswick government is setting a course aimed at cutting NB Power's debt by $800 million over the next decade - a reduction of 20 per cent - while ensuring low and stable energy prices in the future.

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Dodge near midtown to get look

The Omaha City Council unanimously approved hiring HDR Inc. to study options for rerouting the sharp curve that transfers eastbound traffic from Dodge to Douglas Streets near Midtown Crossing.

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Listing of the Week: Life inside a guitar

This luxurious Alabama mansion has guitar-shaped grounds. And that's just the beginning.This luxurious Alabama mansion has guitar-shaped grounds. And that's just the beginning.




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Tutor Perini Corporation Announces Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter 2011 Results

[Business Wire] - Tutor Perini Corporation , a leading civil and building construction company, announced today that it will host a conference call at 1:30 PM Pacific Time on Thursday, November 3, 2011 to discuss the Company's third quarter 2011 results.

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Badger Licensing to Provide Cumene Technology to Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Company in China

[Business Wire] - Badger Licensing LLC today announced that it was awarded a contract by Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. to provide its proprietary technology for a 300,000 metric tons per annum grassroots cumene plant in Dongying City, Shandong Province, People?s Republic of China.

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Masdar Headquarters Project

Multidisciplinary project team led by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill designs world's first large-scale positive-energy building with help from Autodesk� BIM solutions.

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China Metro-Rural Holdings Limited : CNR Sets Date for 2011 Interim Results Announcement (Market Wire)

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